How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis
Stories and information about the coronavirus pandemic have been all over the news – on our social media feeds, newspapers, and TV. In order to see the problems in [...]
How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. And when they decided that [...]
The Five Questions You Need to Answer Before Crowdsourcing
After serving numerous enterprise innovators for years, IdeaScale Crowd is sharing the process that we take all innovators through before they launch a crowdsourcing challenge. The overview will include [...]
Davidson College
Davidson College is a prestigious liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It enrolls approximately 1,800 students from 48 states and 47 countries. In 2017, led by Kristen Eshleman, Director [...]
2021 IM Awards: TriHealth
When Mark Clement joined TriHealth as CEO in 2015 one of his first priorities was to improve employee engagement across its community of 11,000 team members by launching an [...]
2021 IM Awards: Grant Thornton
In 2020, Grant Thornton created the global 'Innovation Exchange' to collect innovative products that their network of member firms have developed to raise awareness for them and facilitate their [...]
2021 IM Awards: Graybar
In order to foster a culture of innovation at Graybar where ideas are openly shared, evaluated, and promoted throughout the company, Graybar introduced the “NEXT” Innovation Program. While there [...]
The Rollercoaster of Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Northern Health is the key provider of public health care in Melbourne’s northern region, one of the fastest growing communities in Australia, with the busiest Emergency Department in the [...]
Sustainability Campaign Ideas
You're committed to building a more sustainable business, but you're not sure what's most important. Should you focus on your carbon footprint or do you want ideas around protecting [...]
The Journey of Agile Transformation
Agile Transformation isn’t a destination. It is the experience of the journey where behaviors evolve, decisions improve, and acting on learning becomes the precipice of success. What happens along [...]
Infographic: Five Crowdsourced Solutions from Surprising Places
Crowdsourcing allows us to find new ideas in places we hadn't thought to look. Here are five examples of great ideas and the ideators that believed in them that [...]
Vancouver Coastal Health
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) provides health-care services to 1.25 million people across British Columbia through a network of hospitals, primary care clinics, community health [...]
Building a Culture of Value Creation: The Secret to Making Innovation Inevitable
Organizational cultures must be designed and nurtured in order to deliver sustainable innovation outcomes. The deliberate introduction of the right value-driven building blocks is one of the best ways [...]
A Look Inside the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Virtual Innovation Lab
Tony Seba, author of Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation said “we are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history.” [...]
Diversity + Equity x Inclusion = Innovative Thinking
In the push to create competitive advantage and stay relevant, organizations stand up a variety of innovation programs. Unfortunately, these well-intentioned programs sometimes lead to less-than-stellar outcomes and fail [...]
How NYU Plans for the Future with the Help of the Crowd
In 2020, universities and other education institutions are facing new and pressing challenges: remote learning, budgetary constraints, renewed attention on diversity and inclusion, and other important changes. Universities have [...]
Case Study Comics: NASA COVID-19 Edition
NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in [...]
Adapt & Pivot in the New Normal
Waiting for a return to "business as usual" will create economic and social chaos that will be harder and harder to fix if businesses don't plan to adapt. In [...]
How to Utilize Crowdsourcing as Part of Your Agency’s COVID-19 Response Strategy
As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) efforts to support American workers and position the economy for a strong rebound, USDOL hosted an IdeaScale national online dialogue [...]
2020 IM Awards: PSA
After making an evaluation of various idea generation platforms, PSA International adopted IdeaScale as their enterprise-wide innovation platform. The platform was named iCAN and it has become a resource [...]
2020 IM Awards: NASA
In their NASA@Work community, anyone with NASA credentials can run challenges, share problems, and post solutions. The Center for Collaborative Excellence and Innovation (CoECI) team makes all that possible. [...]